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Title: The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison, Fred Stella, Laural Merlington ISBN: 1-59086-145-0 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: April, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Intense, Compelling Read
Comment: Kathryn Harrison's The Seal Wife is quite an intense read. It is the story of Bigelow Greene, a young man who moves to Alaska in 1915 to establish a weather station. He becomes obsessed with a silent Aleut woman he becomes sexually involved with and when she mysteriously disappears, his world, and perhaps his sanity begin to crumble. He becomes involved with another silent woman and his simple life grows more and more complex. The brutal Alaskan landscape serves as an excellent backdrop for this novel and its language. The Seal Wife is certainly not for the faint of heart--Bigelow is obsessed with sex and Harrison is not afraid to delve deeply into that obsession. If you can take that, try this intense read. It's hard to put down.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Heart Of Darkness (and Light)....
Comment: Kathryn Harrison's THE SEAL WIFE is far and away her finest work, and one of the finest works of fiction published this year. Written in a very spare style, Harrison doesn't waste a word, a paragraph or a chapter in telling this story of a US government scientist sent to the wilds of Alaska in 1915. Bigelow's assignment is to map the weather patterns of the area, where railroads and infrastructure are to be built, extracting the riches of gold, furs and other precious commodities. Bigelow embarks upon an ambitious quest to construct the biggest kite known, which will aid him in understanding the changeable nature of the region's weather. The kite itself becomes a metaphor for a man's quest for unattainable love, his desire to conquer nature, and the consequences of reaching too far outside one's known experiences in life.
Bigelow has three relationships through the course of the story: one with the kite, which consumes not only his intellect and emotions, but great periods of his time every day; a physical and strangely emotionally distant relationship with an Aleut woman whose name and background he never knows fully. Thirdly, he has another physical and highly emotional liaison with a young woman who communicates only through song.
Harrison's descriptions of the Alaskan frontier with all its vastness, great white blankets of snow and ice, and the long stretches of light and darkness bring the reader into Bigelow's setting like no other novel I can remember.
THE SEAL WIFE is the finest example of the novelist's craft! I would really, really like to see her write into a screenplay. This is a story of great drama veiled by the whiteness of Alaska, and the loneliness of a man's soul. Beautifully done, Kathryn Harrison!!
Rating: 3
Summary: A very cold and long winter...
Comment: In the beginning this book had me hooked. I couldn't put it down. The visuals and the mysterious characters were very appealing. I think Kathryn Harrison is a fabulous writer, but near the end the story lost its juice. The story didn't turn out in the wonderful way I had hoped. It was all too predictable in the end. But still worth a read.
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Title: The Kiss by Kathryn Harrison ISBN: 0380731479 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Poison by Kathryn Harrison ISBN: 0380727412 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Seeking Rapture : Scenes from a Woman's Life by Kathryn Harrison ISBN: 037550558X Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 13 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Binding Chair : or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison ISBN: 0060934425 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Thicker Than Water by Kathryn Harrison ISBN: 0394588894 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 20 March, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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